Posted on 05/23/2021 10:26:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker
I’ve seen these dogs in action before. It’s a fun hobby but there are too many rats and not enough dogs to make any impact.
Lots of ‘rats in government. Did Jao Biden’s dog bite him?
I’ve got an army cats. They keep the rats, mice, snakes, centipedes, scorpions... at bay. Just imagine a service that does the same... AND then delivers some of the cutest things. Kittens.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. From 1978, courtesy of The Rolling Stones:
To live in this town, you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough, tough (Shadoobie, shattered, shadoobie, shattered, shattered)
You got rats on the west side, bed bugs uptown (Shadoobie, shattered)
What a mess, this town’s in tatters, I’ve been shattered (Shadoobie, shattered)
Gonna need a lymphocytic choriomeningitis patch.
While I love to watch dogs work, and they do make great ratters, there’s a part of me that’s thinking we have devolved to a 17th or 18th century level of sanitation if we’re calling in ratter dogs to clean up a city.
Well I know what most FReepers are thinking ..
The other day a mouse a moved into my house and was rattling the pans under the stove. I borrowed a cat and just let it sleep in the house with a bowl of food and a cat box for a couple of days. The rat found somewhere else to live. Most times having a cat in the house is rodent proofing even if the cat doesn’t chase mice. Its presence is sufficient.
I get a kick out of watching rat hunts on Youtube in Britain with air rifles and night vision scopes and cameras.....
... here’s a part of me that’s thinking we have devolved to a 17th or 18th century level of sanitation if we’re calling in ratter dogs...
Yes. And as efficient as these dogs are they can’t be everywhere. The rat population will continue to grow city-wide. And of course PETA will eventually persuade some judge to ban the hunts and that will be that.
My dog would have so loved that.
There are some great YouTube videos of terriers killing rats on farms. One guy uses a mink and a whippet mix. Its fascinating.
Probably right.
But, this is New York, Jake. Filthy town, run by Leftists who pay taxes not to get the trash off the street, but instead, to line some politician's pockets and seem quite happy with it.
as i’m reading this morning...outside my window IC my cat LC with a bird in her mouth. the other day it was another bird...that didn’t make it. 3 or 4 days ago it was a bunny that she dropped to toy with. i grabbed her. the bunny beat feet away to live another day.
I am a “gun-nut”, but the most fun shooting in my life was in college when we’d go to the city dump in moonlight with .22 pistols and stay for hours shooting rats.
A real challenge as they run between piles of trash on their highways.
So satisfying, both the challenge of hitting a moving target - they don’t stop - and of ridding the planet of a pest.
Only one time I inadvertently found myself standing in one of their highways and had them almost running up my legs before I could get out of the way - almost shot myself in the foot trying to keep them off me.
Wish I knew where I could do that again.
Perhaps they could get other "locals" involved. Get some older black guys to go along.
Rather than dog fights enlist a few yutes for Rat hunts. Hire them as "Beaters". (Izat racist?) Perhaps once they get the hang of it they will buy their own dogs and engage in rat hunts. (Rather than hunting Asians or Jews.)
(Urban hunting...Sometimes an adult in a young mans life can make a difference?)
Middleton frequently drops Rommel, a Jagdterrier, straight into dumpsters.
“Go on Rommel, get it,” the group shouts
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